Jaw-dropping Jewels about Jesus
Rarely does Jesus, God the Son, do exactly what we expect of Him. It seems odd that He so frequently surprises us, given that He never changes. Hebrews 13:8 makes this absolute statement: “Jesus the same yesterday, and today, and forever.” Still, though He is blessedly consistent in His goodness, Jesus does unforeseen things. Even when He does what is expected, He does not always do it in the way that we anticipate. Let us join with Jesus on a jaw-dropping journey. (I will be using this opening paragraph for each of the brief messages in this series. The following material will change daily.)
Luke 9:51 says of Jesus that “when the time was come that He should be received up, He stedfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem” to die on the Cross to take the full penalty for our sins. Sadly, we can set our faces to cover up who we really are; we can as a poet said, “wear the mask.” Jesus used the term “hypocrites” at least twenty times in the gospels. Hypocrisy is a serious matter, so serious that we can fool ourselves while we are fooling others. As Jeremiah 17:9 flatly states, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Well, Jesus never wore the mask. When He put on human flesh, He did not cover up anything. Rather, He revealed His deity to us. John 1:18 says, “No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, Which is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him.” Jesus did not hide anything; no, His face fully revealed God. The steadfastness of Jesus, like everything else about Him, is always good.